Kamal Vora (born 19 May 1950) is a

Gujarati language Gujarati (; gu, ગુજરાતી, Gujarātī, translit-std=ISO, label=Gujarati script, ) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken predominantly by the Gujarati people. Gujarati is descended from Old Gu ...

poet and editor from

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, India. He is an editor of ''Etad'', a quarterly Gujarati literary magazine.

Biography

Kamal Vora was born on 19 May 1950 at

Rajkot Rajkot () is the fourth-largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat after Ahmedabad, Vadodara, and Surat, and is in the centre of the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Rajkot is the 35th-largest metropolitan area in India, with a population of ...

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, India. He worked as an electrical engineer for seven years in a factory in Kalyan where his father used to work. Later he entered pharmaceutical industry with his brother. Since 2010, he co-edits, with Naushil Mehta, a Gujarati quarterly journal ''Etad'', founded by

Suresh Joshi Suresh Hariprasad Joshi ( gu, સુરેશ હરિપ્રસાદ જોષી) was an Indian novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, poet, translator, editor and academic in the Gujarati language. Along with his teaching career, h ...

. He was a member of the Gujarati advisory board of

Sahitya Akademi The Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of literature in the languages of India. Founded on 12 March 1954, it is supported by, though independent of, the Indian government. Its of ...

. He lives in

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Works

Vora started writing poetry at the age of 18. His poems started appearing in magazines from 1971. His first anthology of poems ''Arav'' was published in 1991, followed by ''AnekEk'' (2012) and ''Vruddhashatak'' (2015). His poems have been translated in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada and English and appeared in ''

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'', ''

Chicago Review ''Chicago Review'' is a literary magazine founded in 1946 and published quarterly in the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago. The magazine features contemporary poetry, fiction, and criticism, often publishing works in translation and ...

'', ''Anthology of Asian Poets'', ''

Muse India ''Muse India'' is a literary e-journal based in Hyderabad, India. Since 2005, it has appeared bi-monthly in a web edition; it has no print version. In June 2017, Muse India was approved by the UGC as a literary e-journal. Its founder and manag ...

'' etc. He co-edited with

Pravin Pandya Pravin Pandya (born 16 February 1957, Gujarati: પ્રવીણ પંડ્યા) is a Gujarati language poet, writer, playwright and dramatist from Gujarat, India. His significant works include '' Ajavasnan Matsya'' (1994), ''India Lodge'' (2 ...

''Aadhunik Bharatiya Kavita'' (Selection of Gujarati poetry from 1950 to 2010), published in 2017.

Awards

He received the

Sahitya Akademi Award The Sahitya Akademi Award is a literary honour in India, which the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, annually confers on writers of the most outstanding books of literary merit published in any of the 22 languages of the ...

(2016) for Gujarati for his book ''AnekEk'' (2012). His book ''Arav'' was awarded the Umashankar Joshi award. In 2022, he was awarded the 2020 Gangadhar National Award For Poetry.

References

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